Former CVS employee charged in theft of pills from store

BARNSTABLE — A Marstons Mills woman was indicted Friday by a Barnstable County grand jury for allegedly stealing prescription drugs from the CVS where she worked.

By AMY ANTHONY

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By AMY ANTHONY

Posted Jul. 29, 2014 at 2:00 AM

By AMY ANTHONY

Posted Jul. 29, 2014 at 2:00 AM

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BARNSTABLE — A Marstons Mills woman was indicted Friday by a Barnstable County grand jury for allegedly stealing prescription drugs from the CVS where she worked.

Nicole Morrison, 29, faces a charge of larceny of drugs.

On Dec. 8, 2012, police responded to the CVS on Station Avenue in South Yarmouth, where Morrison had worked for several months, for a report of larceny, according to a police report.

The store's regional loss prevention supervisor told Yarmouth police that Morrison had admitted to stealing pills during her shift, the report says. The supervisor told police that the estimated value of the missing pills was $3,500, according to the report.

When confronted by police, Morrison said she had started stealing pills about three weeks earlier when she became a pharmacy technician, according to the report. She said she stole "a few bottles of pills each week," the report says.

A police search of Morrison's car turned up approximately 150 8-milligram Suboxone pills in three bottles labeled as Lorazopan, according to the report. Police also found an empty Suboxone bottle that the supervisor identified as one that was stolen, the report says.

Morrison told police she had been addicted to prescription pills for about two years and took three pills per day, according to the report.

A laboratory test confirmed the pills were buprenorphine, Cape and Islands Assistant District Attorney Tara Miltimore said. Buprenorphine is the generic name for Suboxone, which is used to treat opioid addiction.

Miltimore said she could not comment on why Morrison was indicted more than a year and a half after her arrest.